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the 5 is to be sure it's above the movie layer, which has a smaller index
none of it works. I don't know if the 'the' is behind the movie or heading graphic or anything. Sorry I can't show the actual site. It's on my computer. If that would help, I can upload it and graphic and video.

The complete code (for those of you with a lot of time on your hands) is below:

*confusion*

Because I have no idea what that means. Are you suggesting I get a book on ActionScript? I don't want a different video per each fortune. Do you mean I can randomly choose a phrase and display it using actionscript?

It would be cool if I could make the play button be on the movie. I think that's very simple actionscript, right? I wouldn't know how to make the player not show up.

You can send values to the flash element through flashvars. Then in the flash file use a little bit of actionscript to put that text into your textfield. That way you can just use the one video for all texts and you could even change the text without having to touch the flash file.

Do you know of any good resources or tutorials for doing this? I kinda get what you're saying, but I have no idea how to implement it. Thanks for giving me some good basics for further investigation, though.

Well, I never got it to display, so I don't know if it ever changed randomly. :nP I just realized that. Does Flash have code for randomly selecting something? I also have to time the appearance of the fortune so it is right when the cookie opens, which I can do by adding a keyframe. Could I just make lots of mini movies of different fortunes when the fortune is displayed? And put one of those mini-fortune movies after the opening the fortune movie? Can Flash do that? I can make the mini-movies. I just don't know how to go about randomly selected one of them and playing it after the opening cookie movie.